AMILOADED MEDIA HUB NEWS UPDATE
About 52 months after the one-year-old son of a popular award-winning Afrobeat singer, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’Banj, died by drowning in a swimming pool, the three-year-old son of another award-winning singer, David Adeleke, also known as Davido, died this week under similar circumstances.
Among the prominent Nigerians that mourned with the Adelekes is their family friend of many decades, who is also the traditional ruler of Oke-Ila Orangun, in Osun State, Oba Adedokun Omoniyi Abolarin.
Oba Abolarin told newsmen how Davido’s late mother, Dr Mrs Veronica Adeleke, rescued his own son from drowning 25 years ago.
“It was David’s mummy, late Dr Mrs Veronica Adeleke, that rescued my own son inside the swimming pool some twenty five years ago. My son was a toddler. His toddler friend was seen pointing at the swimming pool and saying his friend (my son) was inside water. Davido’s mum, who was just coming in at that moment, heard the boy and plunged into the pool and pulled out my son. That was 25 years ago. the boy is now a medical doctor.
“I am sad. What Veronica did for my son years back, nobody, I mean nobody, could play the same role for Veronica’s grandson, Ifeanyi. I am sad,” Oba Abolarin said.
However, a South Africa-based Nigerian and co-founder of Transhuman Coin, Dr Charles Awuzie, on his verified Facebook page, stated that, as a father, he could only imagine the pain of Davido and Chioma each time the images of their son drowning in a swimming pool replay in their minds.
“This should be the last time we will lose a child in such a horrific manner,” he said.
(Premium Times)
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